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Aug. 14, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 14, 2009, Friday, Hour #3
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Wait a minute.
No, not four, five, and six.
Six, seven, and eight.
And then thirteen in order.
Okay, greetings and welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
This is the one and only Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and it's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday!
It's a thrill.
And it's a delight to be with you as we wrap up.
Another exciting week in broadcast excellence.
It's amazing.
It's a Friday, and I'm here.
Here's a telephone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882.
The email address is El Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Just deck uh Snerdley's office.
Oh, by the way.
I got all kinds of emails coming in now about weight loss and uh and my diet.
And one thing I'm reminded this count calories.com website.
They got people that they can't lose weight as fast as Limbaugh did it.
Not the way he said.
He just can't do it.
15 days starving.
He'd be he's gonna be hungry on it.
I am not hungry.
And I'm not using willpower.
Well I don't know.
I got a different attitude about it than I've ever had, but I'm not hungry.
Last night, last night when when dinner was placed before me, I said, This can't be right.
There's too much here.
The plate was filled with uh seven ounces of chicken, chicken breast cut in half, and on top of it was a casserole type of broccoli, a little rice, uh some cottage cheese in there, and and a thickening agent, I don't even know what it was, and a cup of asparagus that looked like all uh the whole package from the from the grocery store.
And I said, This just can't, and then there was the frozen uh strawberry dacquery protein shake, which is about you're drinking about 20 ounces.
I looked at those, this can't this can't be.
I almost almost called Catherine as Catherine, this is not right.
This is too much food.
And I've I've thought that I can't tell you how many times that I've sat down to eat on this diet.
It's amazing.
The people who have not done it and the people who don't know what it is are telling you more about how it can't work and doesn't work than the guy who has done it.
Arrogance of these people is just amazing.
Here's a Washington.
I'm sorry, it's an associated press story.
I'm sorry, it's uh Associated Press Analysis by Liz Sedotti.
Critics co-opt Obama playbook is the groundbreaking campaigner being outmaneuvered.
There's a certain irony here, the 20th century community organizer who used 21st century tools for his people-powered White House campaign now finds himself besieged by citizens airing their grievances at 19th century-inspired town hall-style meetings.
Obama's top legislative goal hangs in the balance.
His popularity is suffering, as critics co-opt his tech savvy organizing methods, tag him as a bogeyman, and disrupt local gatherings on his proposed health care overhaul.
Is the groundbreaking campaigner being outmaneuvered?
Sanford Horwood, a biographer of Sautolinski, said there's a fair summary.
That's a fair summary of where things stand at the moment.
The other side has the anger and the intensity, and Obama's side doesn't.
This really first-rate community organizing has not revealed itself in the first months he's been in office, particularly when it comes to the healthcare issue.
You know why?
Because there was never any substantive support for Obama.
This is what all of you analysts are missing.
Obama is an empty suit.
He was a vessel that people could make of whatever they wanted him to be.
He spoke in platitudes.
There was no meaning to any of his speeches.
He basically said, I'm gonna make us all get along, I'm gonna lower the sea levels, we're gonna save the planet, and everybody's gonna have health care.
And that was the extent of it.
Oh, and I'm not George W. Bush.
And I'm gonna get us out of a rack and I'm gonna close getting on all the but but but the the substantive support for Obama, issue by issue was not white people voted for him.
That's why there's no passion.
He can organize his community all he wants, but it's all trumped up and it's all manufactured.
If the support for Obama and his plan were genuine, they wouldn't have to organize.
They wouldn't have to be sending out memos from Axelrod's office and from various White House websites to their so-called 13 million members of organized for America, and it wouldn't have to tell them where to go.
They wouldn't have to tell them how to behave.
They wouldn't have to tell them what to say.
They wouldn't have to call their union buddies and say, hey, uh, we need some help out there in St. Louis.
We need some help with these town hall meetings.
We need some help in Tampa.
There is no passion for Obama's agenda.
That's why they tried to ram this thing through before anybody knew what it was.
In fact, I want to I want to try to put something in uh perspective for you.
To show you the real Obama.
And if after all of this you don't see Obama for what he really is, you probably never will.
Let me run through this.
Obama gave Congress marching orders to produce a health care bill before the August recess.
Obama then gave Congress marching orders for each House to pass a version of health care before the August recess.
To Obama's disappointment and the nation's relief, neither the House nor the Senate passed a bill before the August recess.
And Obama is left holding the signing pen with nothing to sign.
But that's not the point of this message.
Here's the real point.
The closest to passage is the House bill.
The 1,000 plus page House bill that could have been voted on, could have been passed by both houses.
Unquestionably would have been signed into law by President Obama, and the storyline would have been not only did Obama get his health care reform, he got it on his deadline.
The 1,000 page bill is loaded with serious flaws, fatal flaws.
Flaws that would make health care worse rather than better, would not ensure everyone would be a financial disaster, but Obama would have signed it.
This is what you've got to understand.
Had he gotten this monstrosity, he would have signed it.
I promised health care reform, and I'll deliver it.
Health care reform, and I'm regular family.
The vacation, the tour of the national parks.
And while you can barely afford to leave the house, but I'm president, you're not.
So screw you.
I got health care.
I got a monument to build for myself at where's the monument?
Somewhere in South Dakota, well, I'm on Bill One.
The left can talk all they want about Nazis, racists, extremists, angry white men, birthers, greedy insurance companies, but the simple truth is Obama would have signed this into law and he would have bragged about it.
Don't doubt me.
You can close your eyes and picture the screaming headlight of New York Times Obama gets health reform.
But he would not have gotten health care for all.
He would not have gotten better health care.
He would not have gotten less spending.
The real Obama would not have cared.
He would have gotten his trophy.
You realize how dangerously close we came to this.
He would have signed it.
He would sign it today.
The reason I the reason I mention this to you is I was back in Snerdley's orifice during the top of the hour break.
And Snerdley starts, you know how to get his poll numbers back, you know I can get every bit of support he's lost back.
I said, How?
All he's got to do, stop these town meetings.
Just go on television and say, folks, I've heard you.
I hear you.
You don't like this plan.
So I'm taking it off table.
We're starting from scratch, and we're going to address it with your concerns in mind.
I hear what you're saying.
It's a bad piece of legislation.
And I am president of the United States, and we're going to fix it.
Snerdley believes that automatically all of his support would return.
That's the support that he's lost.
Because people want to believe in their president.
Really?
They really wanted to believe in George W. Bush.
Now here's the problem with that.
The problem with that is, I don't doubt some support would come back, but he wouldn't get it all back because he's lost the trust of the American people.
He would have signed this, and people know he would have signed it.
They know he's not telling the truth about it.
He would not get it all back because he's lost the trust of the American people.
And besides, whatever he came back with, his new substitute bill, whatever he came back with would be just as onerous as this.
It'd just be a little bit better disguised.
Because he is who he is, folks.
When he says he's heard you, it doesn't mean, okay, you don't like this, so we're gonna not do it.
When he says he's heard you, if he ever does say this, what he's really saying is, I gotta come up with a different way of scheming you.
He is who he is.
They've been trying for this.
Obama and his ilk have been trying for this for 50 or 60 years in this country.
And they're going to keep trying, no matter how they have to package it, repackage it, how many times.
They're gonna keep coming for it.
I don't think he get all of his support back, Snurley, because people know he would have signed this.
Not even knowing what's in it, not even knowing everything it's in, he would have signed it.
He doesn't know what's in it now.
Brief timeout, we'll be back.
Your phone calls, and some interesting sound bites coming up too.
So sit tight.
And we're back on the fastest three hours in media.
Already into our final hour here.
Let's go back January 17, 2006 at a San Francisco town hall.
Nancy Pelosi said this to the audience about protesters.
I think all of you who have spoken out for your courage, your point of view, all of it, your advocacy is very American and very important.
I understand your anger.
When Franklin Roosevelt died, and I I draw great inspiration from him because he was a disruptor.
And I'm a fan of disruptors, people who make hate change.
Nancy Pelosi loves disruptors, she told people in 2006.
They're great patriots.
Not anymore.
Now they're Nazis.
Blanche Lincoln in Little Rock at an event at John McClellan Memorial Veterans Hospital.
Senator Blanch Lincoln, Arkansas Democrat asked by a local Fox reporter, Jennifer Akers, if she regrets calling people protesting at health care town halls on American.
I made an apology and I said it was an inappropriate way to describe it.
And I think that's certainly adequate.
I think I've made my statement about that.
I apologize for for uh you know using a term that was inappropriate.
All these Democrats running around with all this hate speech aimed at the American people, and some of them now having to apologize for it.
And Gene Green in Texas, who every time he has a chance votes against requiring a photo ID to vote, requiring a photo ID to get into one of his town halls.
Last night on MSNBC, the socialist senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, was interviewed.
Question.
In watching some of the events that have unfolded around the country over the last couple of weeks with your Senate colleagues, what are you uh preparing yourself for out there?
The question we should be talking about is not the end-of-life phony discussion of Rush Limbo, etc.
What we should be talking about is how it can be that this nation spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation.
That is the kind of debate that we should be having, not the issue of does Barack Obama want to kill off the old people or the disabled.
That is insane.
It's not insane.
It's gonna happen.
It's going to happen it it there's no other way this can happen.
Look.
Health care, spending.
Do we spend money on the healthy?
When's the last time a healthy person had a doctor cut off his foot for the money?
When is the last time that a healthy person go in and have an appendix removed?
When's the last time he did open heart surgery on a healthy person?
It doesn't happen.
Health care money is spent on sick people.
And the older they are, the more we spend.
That's just it's just statistics.
And it makes sense.
So if you're going to reduce spending, and Obama says he's going to cut space, he's got to reduce the costs here because we got to bring the deficit down.
Ha ha ha ha, but it's what he says.
Well, if you're going to cut spending in health care, and you don't spend any money on the healthy, then where in the hell are you going to cut spending?
You got to cut it on the sick.
You're gonna you're gonna cut it on Medicare.
You're gonna cut spending in Medicare.
It's in the House bill anyway.
They're gonna cut spending on Medicare.
Mr. Sanders, you're lying through your teeth.
You can invoke my name all you want, but you're lying through your teeth about it.
There is no way that we cannot cut spending on the sick.
Because that's the only people we spend on.
I mean, friends, it's just simple logic.
What do you mean they're gonna all right?
They're gonna stop the greedy doctors.
They're gonna stop the uh the greedy insurance.
Yeah, they're gonna squeeze the profits, and they're gonna squeeze the doctors.
Right.
That's not gonna be substantive savings.
You just and by the way, Bernie, you're only here a senator.
The death panels that you say weren't there have now been removed from the bill.
At least they told us they're going to remove them.
You know, we did earlier at Megan Kelly talking to to Bill Burton, a White House uh press spokesman on these emails.
The snitch website emails that are people getting emails from David Axelrod, and they never sent a note to the White House.
So yesterday afternoon in the White House press briefing, Major Garrett of Fox News said to the press Secretary Robert Gibbs, I've received emails from people who've never signed up for anything related to this White House.
Senator Obama's a candidate, and they're getting emails from David Axerod.
How can that be?
I'd be interested to see who you got that email from and whether or not they're on the list.
What you're telling me is I need to give you these people's emails so you can check them on a list.
I'm just asking.
Well, you're asking me if they're on a list.
They're telling me they're not going to be on a list because they never asked for an email from the White House.
What I'm saying is I I'd have to look and see.
So there's no you don't have an explanation for how someone who never signed up and never asked for anything in the White House would get an email from David actually.
I hesitate to give you an answer because you might impugn the motives of the answer.
Why would you say that?
I I because of the way you phrased your follow-up.
I appreciate the fact that I have omnipotent clarity uh as to what you've received in your email box uh today.
I have omnipotent clarity.
You don't have to impune anything about it.
I'm telling you what I got.
Let me go to somewhere else that might be constructive.
Some place else that might be constructive.
And uh I saw this morning uh Major Garrett interviewed on Fox.
Major, do you haven't answered your question yet?
He said, No, I still don't know how it is that people who never contacted the White House or Obama are getting emails from David Axel.
It's the snitch website.
We all know this.
This was the express purpose of the snitch website.
Last night in Pittsburgh, Bill Clinton at the Nut Roots National Convention.
And a blogger said, Mr. Mr. President, will you call for a repeal of uh uh don't ask, don't tell right now?
Hey, you know you ought to go to one of those congressional health care meetings.
You do really well there.
You want to talk about don't ask, don't tell?
I'll tell you exactly what happened.
You couldn't deliver me any support in the Congress, and they voted by a veto-proof majority in both houses against my attempt to let gays serve in the military, and the media supported them.
They raised all kinds of devilment, and all most of you did was to attack me instead of getting me some support in the Congress.
Now that's the truth.
This is amazing.
This is amazing.
The President of the United States, Bill Clinton, attacking a hapless little blogger who wants to know about don't ask, don't tell, call for a uh a repeal of it, and Clinton says, hey, I try to do it, I try to do it.
You guys, you guys weren't helping me get support in Congress.
I've ever lined up against me.
I try to get it done.
I'm right.
I'm the president.
Here's Clinton's message.
They're gonna sum up his answer very simply.
I'm the president.
How dare you ask me that question?
I'm the president, and you're a blogger.
And you tell me it's my fault.
No, I'm president, and you're a blogger, and it's your fault.
And don't ask, don't tell, got all screwed up.
That's the Bill Clinton mentality.
Also, last night in Pittsburgh at the Nut Roots Convention, Clinton spoke before taking questions, and here's a portion of his remarks.
The Republicans are sitting around rooting for the president to fail.
One of the reasons that people are so hysterical at all these health care town hall meetings is they know they have no chance to beat health care this time unless they can mortify with rigored fears.
Some moderate and conservative Democrats.
Right about that.
I mean, the the the blue dog Democrats are where the uh success or failure of this thing land.
But you know, here's Clinton, Republicans sitting around rooting for the president to fail.
Guy still can't get me off his brain.
He just none of them can.
None of them can get me off of their minds.
And uh, we got another sound, but I don't have time to squeeze it in here before the break, but uh it he he begs these nut root bloggers here uh not to let Republicans kill health care again.
You'll hear that we come back.
We got a lot of your phone calls uh to go.
And Aunt Zatutie.
Aunt Zatuty uh uh says it's uh Barack was born in Hawaii.
It's a matter of arithmetic.
Okay, we're back.
Bill Clinton at the uh nutroots uh convention in Pittsburgh last night.
And one of the things we don't have us on table, but one of the things that Clinton said, now he's repeating this mantra that um we're spending more on health care than any other country in the world.
And Obama said we spend more on health care than any other country in the world.
Well, guess what, folks?
We also spend more on public education than any other country in the world.
And we spend more on food stamps than any other country in the world.
We spend more on welfare than any other country in the world.
We spend more on unemployment than any other country in the world.
What is this mantra we spend more on health care than any other nation?
Bernie Sanders is out there talking about it.
Clinton's talking about it.
What do you Bernie?
You want us to cut spending?
You want us to cut spending?
Bernie, is that what it is?
You want us to cut health care spending?
We're spending too much?
Are we spending too much on unemployment, Bernie?
Are we spending too much on public education?
Are we spending too much on the school lunch program?
Are we spending too much on the welfare state, Bernie?
These people are nuts.
They're fruitcakes.
We're spending too much on health care.
We got to get health care reform.
Well, we need welfare reform, and we need uh we need food stamp reform.
These people are absolutely insane.
Now here's Clinton again.
I got these two sound bites.
First of two at the Nut Roots Convention in Pittsburgh last night.
The Republicans are sitting around rooting for the president to fail.
One of the reasons that people are so hysterical at all these health care town hall meetings is they know they have no chance to beat health care this time unless they can mortify with rigored fears.
Some moderate and conservative Democrats.
What is this mortify with rigored fears?
He's he's thinking rigor mortis.
And that's what sets in way after you die.
Mortify with rigored fears.
He's thinking rigor mortis.
I know he's thinking that's what's going to happen to health care plan.
Here's how he wrapped it up.
You want to go through that again?
Of course you don't.
I'm telling you, I don't care how low they drive support for this with misinformation.
The minute the president signs a health care reform bill, approval will go up.
Secondly, within a year, when all those bad things they say are going to happen don't happen, and the good things do begin to happen, approval will explode.
Now you see how the big lie works.
You see how this works, folks.
Clinton keeps talking about Republicans trying to kill government-run health care.
Well, most of them surely oppose it, but Obama's losing the independence big time on this.
That's where he's losing, and he's gonna lose some blue dog Democrats.
It's not just Republicans.
He can't even keep one third of the Democrats aligned on this.
He's got big problems all over the place, but notice it's the Republicans.
At the end of the day, Republicans don't have the votes to stop anything.
And by the way, I don't know if you've seen this video of Clinton.
But I would caution the president to behave better at these meetings.
I mean, here he is out there screaming, he's raising his voice.
Arms are flailing around out there's waving around that long finger here.
Very provocative.
Very threatening gesture to get that big finger pointed at you.
I mean, I I would suggest you become a little bit more civil.
Uh uh, even even at the Nut Roots Convention with uh, you know, assemblage of fruitcakes, but uh it's disruptive.
I mean it's it's disruptive and it's distracting.
But it's it's just it's not presidential.
It's no waving your arms around out there pointing at big long finger people.
Uh I think I think you should behave better.
Mike in Billings, Montana.
Uh great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
It's my honor to talk to you, Rush.
Thank you.
I don't know that it's been twenty years for me trying to get in at a former state senator thanks to you.
I was elected back in the ninety-five era.
And I remember uh some advice you gave me, and it kept me on track, and that was if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
That's exactly right.
And I was a Vietnam vet and I got off a duff and signed up and was defeated by forty votes the first time but kept at it, and I was elected for ten years, and uh we took the uh state majority.
And I wanted to leave a message or have you Obama's gonna meet here at Montana in a couple hours.
He just landed.
Yeah, and I think you if you had an opportunity to speak to Montanans, we are the home of Max Bacchus and John Tester, and Max uh said that uh chips was gonna fix everything, so he raised the price, etc.
And that didn't fix anything.
And ma and uh John Tester's relatively new at this and he can still change his mind and Montanans need to uh let 'em know what they think of the uh uh reservation type health care.
And I if if I had my way and I could be there two hundred miles away, I would, and I'd have a sign that says no reservation health care for me, Max.
What do you mean?
Uh reservation health care.
Well, our reserv we have several reservations over five.
Crow uh in sh incidentally, Obama is an honorary member of the Crow tribe.
I think they call him Black Eagle.
No, no, what what I I know, but what is what is uh what is uh uh uh uh reservation health care.
It's like Canadian health care.
They uh uh have to go through the Indian Health Service in order to get medical attention, and when that's not available through volunteer doctors, they're sent to the safety net, which is our uh main system, and they uh that's why about fifty percent of the emergency room is full of reservation Indians who can't get service on the on the reservation.
Yeah.
Sounds exactly like what Obamacare's gonna be.
Spread the health care from the Indian reservation around the co that sounds exactly what Obamacare is gonna be.
Thanks for the call, Mike, appreciate it.
Uh Farah, is that happening?
Farah in uh Anaheim Hills, California.
Hi.
Hi, thank you very much for taking my call.
Um, I wanted to give you a little background.
Um I came from um Iran to this great land in um 1978, and I completed my MBA and became a US citizen.
Which I'm very proud of.
Congratulations.
Thank you very much.
I'm coming to let you know that I'm very worried about what's going on.
Um I would like to compare um what is happening here to what happened in Iran in late seventies.
As you know, they um allowed their mullahs to invade their country in the name of Islam.
Um after all they were thinking, what could go wrong?
These are all religious people.
Now they are um uh they have to um work hard and run into streets um so their voice gets uh their voice gets heard and um they are facing severe consequences and but they want to get their country back.
What I'm trying to say is that it's very difficult um to get their country back now.
Now they have realized that they made a very big mistake.
So what I'm worried about is that the American um don't appreciate what they have right now.
You know, I am fascinated, Farrah, with uh people like you who have lived under and are familiar with totalitarian statist regimes, and there have been a number of them that have called this program over the years who cite fears that they see happening in this country what they fled in other countries.
Now we're not yet Iran, but I still find it fascinating that you having lived under that kind of regime.
Well, you didn't live under the mullahs, but uh uh you you you're very familiar with oppression and so forth, that you think by what you see here that it's uh it's on the verge of happening in the United States.
I just find it interesting.
Because it is the history of the world, folks.
That kind of oppression, totalitarianism, that is the way most people in the history of the world have had to live.
We're the exception.
In fact, Farrah, thanks much for the call.
I appreciate the the Farad Heritage Foundation today.
Um is Obamacare consistent with our first principles.
And this is a piece from the Heritage Foundation about how the all of this health care is really just unconstitutional.
During one of Arlen Specter's early health care town halls in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, a mother of two, Katie Abrams told the audience, I don't believe this is just about health care.
It's not about TARP.
It's not about left and right.
This is about the systematic dismantling of this country.
I'm only 35 years old.
I've never been interested in politics.
You have awakened a sleeping giant, she said to Senator Specter.
Katie Abrams is dead on.
Our federal government has unfortunately long been drifting away from the limited government principles first envisioned by our founders.
But over the past eleven months, that drift has turned into an all-out sprint towards an undemocratic, technocratic, Leviathan state, uh a type of government that our Constitution was specifically designed to prevent.
As Katie Abrams points out, both political parties have been complicit in the rapid deterioration of our founding principles.
It was, after all, President Bush who pushed for and signed the uh TARP program when the Bush administration submitted their legislation to Congress.
The Heritage Foundation said from a constitutional standpoint, the current versions of the legislation are different in scope, especially in kind from almost any federal legislation that has come before.
Specifically, we identified Congress's enumerated power or lack thereof to intervene with private markets in the manner contemplated, the lack of meaningful standards to guide the extremely broad grant of discretion to the Treasury Secretary, limitations on judicial review over the exercise of that almost limitless discretion and related separation of powers concerns.
And they were exactly right.
Congress doesn't have the right constitutionally to intervene in the private sector the way they are doing and did.
But...
Now the Heritage Foundation piece here says the only thing that truly surprised us after the legislation's passage was just how quickly our worst fears were realized.
The TART plan quickly devolved, as sold to Congress was never implemented, and it it quickly devolved into a political slush fund.
And there are people that warned that that's what it was all about in the uh in the first place.
Even worse is what is not yet in the health care bill, but is desperately wanted by Obama.
A super empowered Medicare Payment Advisory Commission that is specifically designed to save money in an apolitical technocratic way.
The entire purpose of this part of Obamacare would be to take medical decisions away from patients and vested in a panel of experts specifically designed to be completely unaccountable to the American people.
Is this what the framers of the Constitution had in Mind.
Let me translate this for you.
Right now, Congress decides on Medicare payments.
How much, where they go, as a matter of legislation.
Ram Emanuel has said the most important thing in any health care legislation is transferring that control to the White House.
Obama wants to set up a panel of people, czars, that were not accountable to anybody, that will make these decisions.
And that's where the end-of-life stuff has come into question and the death panels and all of that.
And that is clearly unconstitution.
The uh constitutional, the powers delegated by the Constitution to the federal government are few and define.
Most of the Constitution tells the government what it cannot do.
Obama doesn't like that.
So this entire health care legislation is not even constitutional.
We're watching it being shredded before our eyes.
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By the way, folks, a program note.
I will be broadcasting from uh outside the EIB studios next week.
Uh we're going to be in a different location, and we don't have a ditto cam there.
So I, Coco, you better plaster it all over the website every day that no ditto cam, because we're going to be in a satellite studio that doesn't have one.
Uh, not on purpose.
We're just going to be in a satellite studio that does not have a ditto cam all of next week.
And next Tuesday, I will be off because I've got to tape uh uh my starring role in the upcoming and upcoming episode of Family Guy.
I've got to do that all day on Tuesday.
So, yeah, we're gonna be out in California.
There's no ditto cam out there.
A great story from Thomas Lifson here at The American Thinker.
Sanity wins in Australia.
The warmest fantasy embraced by the labor prime minister Kevin Rude has led to what Reuters correspondent Rob Taylor earlier called a day of reckoning.
The BBC reports the Australian Parliament has rejected government plans to introduce an ambitious carbon trading scheme to tackle global warming.
The measure was the centerpiece of the government's environmental plans and would have cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5% over the next ten years, which is BS.
But opposition senators who control the upper house feared the legislation would harm the country's mining sector.
The battle isn't over.
Bloomberg says that Rude, who needs support from seven senators outside the government to pass laws through the upper house, can resubmit the bill after making amendments, a second rejection after a three-month span would give him a trigger to what to call an election.
So for now, the climate change debate in Australia is over, and it's a great example of what's going on right now in this country with health care, because what's happened in Australia is the people finally understood what was going to happen to them because of cap and trade, the carbon tax bill, and the liberals in Australia lost.
This is why the liberals in the UN and in the BAM administration and in Pelosi's house and Harry Reid Senator in such a hurry.
So you can't find out about any of this that they're doing.
This folks, this this agenda, be it Obama's or Pelosi's or or Harry Reed's or Henry Waxman's Barney Franks, this is their wet dream, folks.
This they've been having this dream for I can't tell you how many centuries, how many decades.
And now they think they've got the power to just ram it through everybody.
And you're stopping it on health care.
It hasn't been stopped, but you are stopping it.
And this cap and trade thing in Australia is a great illustration of how it can happen here too.
Have a great weekend.
We will see you on Monday.
Well, I still have to close it out here, but we're gonna be in Los Angeles all next week.
And just remember, no ditto cam next week.
I'm gonna get grief because people are not gonna have heard me say, where's the ditto cam?
Where'd you get a camp?
There isn't one.
There won't be one.
Well, what a fast, exciting week of busy broadcast excellence, ladies and gentlemen.
And we'll have fun uh all next week in Los Angeles.
Again, off Tuesday, because I go to the studio to do family guy taping.
Who's working next Tuesday?
Mark Stein is?
Good.
Mark Mark Stein next Tuesday.
Remember, no ditto cam next week.
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